- + MUDLink Is Making UART Data Links More Reliable—Many of us have used UARTs to spit data from one system or chip to another. Normally, for quick and dirty maker projects, this is good enough. However...
- + [DiyOtaku] Gives Old Devices A New Life—Sometimes we get sent a tip that isn’t just a single article or video, but an entire blog or YouTube channel. Today’s channel, [Diy Otaku]...
- + Don’t Object to Python Objects—There’s the old joke about 10 kinds of programmers, but the truth is when it comes to programming, there are often people who make tools and peo...
- + Start Your Creepy Jack-O-Lantern Project Early This Year With Gourdan—For a lot of us, projects take time, and they have to be squeezed in around the regular chores of real life. Thus, if you’re starting your Hallo...
- + Bypass PoE And Power Your Starlink Terminal Directly—Sometimes, you will want to power a device in a way it wasn’t designed for, and you might find that the device in question is way too tailored t...
- + Cute Solar Power Gauge Brightens the Day—What’s the first thing you want after installing solar? All the sunshine you can get, of course. Especially if you did it in the wintertime. And...
- + 3D Printed Wheels Passively Transform To Climb Obstacles—Wheels do a great job at rolling over all kinds of terrain, particularly if you pair them with compliant tires. However, they’re not perfect, an...
- + NASA Is Now Tasked With Developing A Lunar Time Standard, Relativity Or Not—A little while ago, we talked about the concept of timezones and the Moon. It’s a complicated issue, because on Earth, time is all about the Sun...
- + $1 TinyML Board For Your “AI” Sensor Swarm—You might be under the impression that machine learning costs thousands of dollars to work with. That might be true in many cases, but there’s m...
- + Building a Mechanical Keyboard as a Learning Project—[Thomas Rinsma] wanted to learn about designing PCBs. Thus, he set about a nifty project that would both teach him those lessons and net him something...
- + T3rminal Cyberdeck Has Looks to Die For—One of the greatest things about the hacker ecosystem is that whole standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants thing. Somebody makes something and shares it,...
- + A Primer On Optical Storage Data Preservation—Picking a storage medium for data preservation can be a conflicting time. Sure, they say optical storage tends to last, but it can’t be as strai...
- + FLOSS Weekly Episode 781: Resistant To The Wrath Of God—This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls sit down with Mathias Buus Madsen and Paolo Ardoino of Holepunch, to talk about the Pear Runtime and the Kee...
- + Tiny Prisms Let You See What Lies Beneath a BGA Chip—Compared to through-hole construction, inspecting SMD construction is a whole other game. Things you thought were small before are almost invisible no...
- + Manta: An Open On-FPGA Debug Interface—We always can use more tools for FPGA debugging, and the Manta project by [Fischer Moseley] delivers without a shadow of a doubt. Manta lets you add a...
- + Programming Ada: Packages and Command Line Applications—In the previous installment in this series we looked at how to set up an Ada development environment, and how to compile and run a simple Ada applicat...
- + This Arduino Is Feeding The Fishes—Depending on the species, a fish can be a fairly low-maintenance pet. But of course even the most laid back of creatures needs to eat, so you’ll...
- + Supercon 2023: Jose Angel Torres On Building A Junkyard Secure Phone—If you ever wondered just what it takes to build a modern device like a phone, you should have come to last year’s Supercon and talked with [Jos...
- + Pssst… Wanna Buy An Old Supercomputer?—If you spend your time plotting evil world domination while stroking your fluffy white cat in your super-villain lair, it’s clear that only the ...
- + Cheap Musical Tesla Coil Put Through Its Paces—Once upon a time, musical Tesla coils were something you primarily saw at high-voltage hobby meets. They’ve become more popular in recent years,...
- + Simplest Speaker Oscillator, Now Even Simpler—It never fails. Lay down some kind of superlative — fastest, cheapest, smallest — around this place and someone out there says, “Hol...
- + Making Beer Like It’s 1574, For Science And Heritage—Are you interested in the history of beer, food science, or just a fan of gathering “um, actually” details about things? Well you’re...
- + 3D-Printed Macro Pad Plate Is LEGO-Compatible—We love LEGO, we love keyboards, and when the two join forces, we’re usually looking at a versatile peripheral that’s practically indestru...
- + The Cheapest USB Blaster Ever, Thanks To CH552—Here’s a CH552G-based USB Blaster project, in case you needed more CH552G in your life, which you absolutely do. It gives you the expected IDC-1...
- + Possibly The Cheapest Way To Film In Bullet Time—When The Matrix hit the cinemas back in 1999 it started a minor revolution with its use of so-called “Bullet time” — a freeze-frame ...
- + Singleboard: Alpha is a Very Stylish Computer on a Single PCB—When we think single-board computers, we normally envision things like the Raspberry Pi. But Arduboy creator [Kevin Bates] has recently come up with h...
- + 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: The Winners Are In—Home automation is huge right now in consumer electronics, but despite the wide availability of products on the market, hackers and makers are still s...
- + Turn Your Qualcomm Phone Or Modem Into Cellular Sniffer—If your thought repurposing DVB-T dongles for generic software defined radio (SDR) use was cool, wait until you see QCSuper, a project that re-purpose...
- + Squeeze Another Drive into a Full-Up NAS—A network-attached storage (NAS) device is a frequent peripheral in home and office networks alike, yet so often these devices come pre-installed with...
- + You Can Use Visual Studio Code To Write Commodore 64 Assembly—Once upon a time, you might have developed for the Commodore 64 using the very machine itself. You’d use the chunky old keyboard, a tape drive, ...
- + Sound and Water Make Weird Vibes in Microgravity—NASA astronaut [Don Pettit] shared a short video from an experiment he performed on the ISS back in 2012, demonstrating the effects of sound waves on ...
- + This Is How a Pen Changed the World—Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cub...
- + Tiny Arduino Drone Even Has an FPV Camera—In the turmoil of today’s world, drones are getting bigger, badder, and angrier. [Max Imagination] has gone the other way with his work, though,...
- + A CH552G Devboard In Case You Missed It—We might just never get tired of covering cool small cheap MCUs, and CH552G sure fits this description. Just so you know, here’s a Hackaday.io p...
- + Upgrade Your Test Probes—One of the most basic tools for tinkering with electronics is a multimeter. Today, even a cheap meter has capabilities that would have been either ver...
- + VAR Is Ruining Football, and Tech Is Ruining Sport—Another week in football, another VAR controversy to fill the column inches and rile up the fans. If you missed it, Coventry scored a last-minute winn...
- + Farewell MFJ—We were sad to hear that after 52 years in operation, iconic ham radio supplier MFJ will close next month. On the one hand, it is hard not to hear &#...
- + DIY Passive Radar System Verifies ADS-B Transmissions—Like most waves in the electromagnetic spectrum, radio waves tend to bounce off of various objects. This can be frustrating to anyone trying to use so...
- + AI Can Now Compress Text—There are many claims in the air about the capabilities of AI systems, as the technology continues to ascend the dizzy heights of the hype cycle. Some...
- + Hack In Style With This Fallout Cyberdeck—There’s always an appeal to a cool-looking computer case or cyberdeck – and with authentic-looking Vault-Tec style, [Eric B] and [kc9psw]&...
- + Hackaday Links: April 28, 2024—Well, it’s official — AI is ruining everything. That’s not exactly news, but learning that LLMs are apparently being used to write s...
- + You Can Run BASIC On an Old HP 4592 Protocol Analyzer—What do you do when you find an ancient piece of test gear and want to have fun? Well, you can always try getting BASIC running on it, and that’...
- + Corral Some Zippy Blue Flames Into 3D Printed Troughs—[Steve Mould] came across an interesting little phenomenon of blue flames zipping around a circular track. This led to diving down a bit of a rabbit h...
- + Boneblocker Is A Big LED Wall That Rocks—[Nick Lombardy] took on a job almost every maker imagines themselves doing at some point. He built a giant LED wall and he did a damn fine job of it, ...
- + The Z80 Is Dead. Long Live The Free Z80!—It’s with a tinge of sadness that we and many others reported on the recent move by Zilog to end-of-life the original Z80 8-bit microprocessor. ...
- + Train a GPT-2 LLM, Using Only Pure C Code—[Andrej Karpathy] recently released llm.c, a project that focuses on LLM training in pure C, once again showing that working with these tools isn̵...
- + Pi Pico Gets a ZX Spectrum Emulator—The Pi Pico is a capable microcontroller that can do all kinds of fun and/or useful things. In the former vein, [antirez] has ported a ZX Spectrum emu...
- + Wine in Beverage Cans Had a Rotten Egg Problem, Until Now—Aluminum beverage cans are used for all kinds of drinks, but when it comes to wine there are some glitches. Chief among them is the fact that canned w...
- + RGB LED HexaClock Doesn’t Actually Light Up the Night—Who says a clock can’t be both useful and beautiful? That seems to be the big idea behind the lovely little HexaClock from [Bulduper]. And boy, ...
- + 3D Printed Adapter Helps You Eat Chicken Nuggets On The Highway—So often, we see 3D printers used to create some nifty little tool for a tricky little job. Maybe it’s to lock cams together for a timing belt c...
- + Welcome Back, Voyager—In what is probably the longest-distance tech support operation in history, the Voyager mission team succeeded in hacking their way around some defect...
- + Photo Shows Real Spiders From Mars—A cornerstone of early 1970s rock music culture was the British singer David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust persona, along with his backing band the Spid...
- + How Additional Aerodynamic Drag Helped Make GTA III Work on PS2—The PlayStation 2 was a revelation when it hit the market in 2000, and yet by modern standards, it’s almost hopelessly weak. In fact, it’s...
- + Nearly-Destroyed Commodore Gets New Life—We all have our shiny, modern computers for interacting with the modern world, but at times they can seem a little monochromatic. Even the differences...
- + Australian Library Uses Chatbot To Imitate Veteran With Predictable Results—The educational sector is usually the first to decry large language models and AI, due to worries about cheating. The State Library of Queensland, how...
- + Keep Tabs on PC Use with Custom Analog Voltmeter—With the demands of modern computing, from video editing, streaming, and gaming, many of us will turn to a monitoring system of some point to keep tab...
- + Build Your Own Class-E Musical Tesla Coil—We’ve all seen a million videos online with singing Tesla coils doing their thang. [Zach Armstrong] wasn’t content to just watch, though. ...
- + 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: Spray Bottle Turret Silences Barking—Ah, dogs. They sure like to bark, don’t they? [rrustvold]’s dog likes to bark at the door when a package arrives. Or when someone walks by...
- + Hackaday Podcast Episode 268: RF Burns, Wireless Charging Sucks, and Barnacles Grow on Flaperons—Elliot and Dan got together to enshrine the week’s hacks in podcast form, and to commiserate about their respective moms, each of whom recently ...
- + This Week in Security: Cisco, Mitel, and AI False Flags—There’s a trend recently, of big-name security appliances getting used in state-sponsored attacks. It looks like Cisco is the latest victim, bas...
- + Microsoft Updates MS-DOS GitHub Repo to 4.0—We’re not 100% sure which phase of Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish” gameplan this represents, but just yesterday ...
- + How To Cast Silicone Bike Bits—It’s a sad fact of owning older machinery, that no matter how much care is lavished upon your pride and joy, the inexorable march of time takes ...
- + AI System Drops a Dime on Noisy Neighbors—“There goes the neighborhood” isn’t a phrase to be thrown about lightly, but when they build a police station next door to your hous...
- + Synthesis of Goldene: Single-Atom Layer Gold With Interesting Properties—The synthesis of single-atom layer versions of a range of atoms is currently all the hype, with graphene probably the most well-known example of this....
- + Combadge Project Wants to Bring Trek Tech to Life—While there’s still something undeniably cool about the flip-open communicators used in the original Star Trek, the fact is, they don’t re...
- + A Smart Power Distribution Unit for Home Automation—Power distribution units, as the name implies, are indispensable tools to have available in a server rack. They can handle a huge amount of power for ...
- + The Myth of Propellantless Space Propulsion Refuses to Die—In a Universe ruled by the harsh and unyielding laws of Physics, it’s often tempting to dream of mechanisms which defy these rigid restrictions....
- + Reverse Engineering A Fancy Disposable Vape—Many readers will be aware of the trend for disposable vapes, and how harvesting them for lithium-ion batteries has become a popular pastime in our co...
- + Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Transmitting Typewriter—Okay, so we’re opening with more than just a keyboard, and that’s fine. In fact, it’s more than fine, it’s probably the cutest...
- + Chip Mystery: The Case of the Purloined Pin—Let’s face it — electronics are hard. Difficult concepts, tiny parts, inscrutable datasheets, and a hundred other factors make it easy to ...
- + Implantable Battery Charges Itself—Battery technology is the major limiting factor for the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles and grid-level energy storage. Marginal improvements...
- + Sticky Situation Leads To Legit LEGO Hack—[samsuksiri] frequently uses a laptop and has an external drive to store projects. The drive flops around on the end of its tether and gets in the way...
- + The Performance Impact of C++’s `final` Keyword for Optimization—In the world of software development the term ‘optimization’ is generally reason for experienced developers to start feeling decidedly ner...
- + Downloading Satellite Imagery With a Wi-Fi Antenna—Over the past century or so we’ve come up with some clever ways of manipulating photons to do all kinds of interesting things. From lighting to ...
- + More Mirrors (and a Little Audio) Mean More Laser Power—Lasers are pretty much magic — it’s all done with mirrors. Not every laser, of course, but in the 1980s, the most common lasers in commerc...
- + DIY Electronics Plus Woodworking Equal Custom Lamp—There is something about wooden crafts that when combined with electronics, have a mesmerizing effect on the visual senses. The Gesture Controlled DNA...
- + Supercon 2023: Alex Lynd Explores MCUs in Infosec—The average Hackaday reader hardly needs to be reminded of the incredible potential of the modern microcontroller. While the Arduino was certainly tra...
- + The First European Pocket Calculator Came From Yugoslavia—At the start of the 1970s the pocket calculator was the last word in personal electronics, and consumers in Europe looked eagerly towards Japan or the...
- + Mining and Refining: Uranium and Plutonium—When I was a kid we used to go to a place we just called “The Book Barn.” It was pretty descriptive, as it was just a barn filled with &#...
- + Chinese Subs May Be Propelled Silently By Lasers—If sharks with lasers on their heads weren’t bad enough, now China is working on submarines with lasers on their butts. At least, that’s w...
- + Flute Now Included on List of Human Interface Devices—For decades now, we’ve been able to quickly and reliably interface musical instruments to computers. These tools have generally made making and ...
- + No Active Components in This Mysterious Audio Oscillator—What’s the simplest audio frequency oscillator you can imagine? There’s the 555, of course, and we can think of a few designs using just t...
- + New JEDEC DDR5 Memory Specification: Up To 8800 MT/s, Anti-Rowhammer Features—As DDR SDRAM increases in density and speed, so too do new challenges and opportunities appear. In the recent DDR5 update by JEDEC – as reported...
- + FLOSS Weekly Episode 780: Zoneminder — Better Call Randal—This week Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb chat with Isaac Connor about Zoneminder! That’s the project that’s working to store and deliv...
- + 80s Function Generator is Both Beauty and Beast—You know how the saying goes — they don’t make them like this anymore. It’s arguably true of pretty much any electronic device given...
- + Amazon Ends California Drone Deliveries While Expanding to Arizona—When Amazon started its Prime Air drone delivery service in 2022, it had picked College Station (Texas) and Lockeford (California) as its the first ar...
- + An Elbow Joint That Can—We’re not certain whether [Paul Gould]’s kid’s prosthetic elbow joint is intended for use by a real kid or is part of a robotics pro...
- + Programming Ada: First Steps on the Desktop—Who doesn’t want to use a programming language that is designed to be reliable, straightforward to learn and also happens to be certified for ev...
- + Your Smart TV Does 4K, Surround Sound, Denial-of-service…—Any reader who has bought a TV in recent years will know that it’s now almost impossible to buy one that’s just a TV. Instead they are all...
- + Reverse Engineering the Quansheng Hardware—In the world of cheap amateur radio transceivers, the Quansheng UV-K5 can’t be beaten for hackability. But pretty much every hack we’ve se...
- + Dual-Wavelength SLA 3D Printing: Fast Continuous Printing With ROMP And FRP Resins—As widespread as 3D printing with stereolithography (SLA) is in the consumer market, these additive manufacturing (AM) machines are limited to a singl...
- + Dual-Wavelength SLA 3D Printing: Fast Continuous Printing With ROMP And RFP Resins—As widespread as 3D printing with stereolithography (SLA) is in the consumer market, these additive manufacturing (AM) machines are limited to a singl...
- + Optical Tweezers Investigate Tiny Particles—No matter how small you make a pair of tweezers, there will always be things that tweezers aren’t great at handling. Among those are various flu...
- + NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth—After many tense months, it seems that thanks to a gaggle of brilliant engineering talent and a lucky break the Voyager 1 spacecraft is once more back...
- + Ancient Cable Modem Reveals Its RF Secrets—Most reverse engineering projects we see around here have some sort of practical endpoint in mind. Usually, but not always. Reverse-engineering a 40-y...
- + AI + LEGO = A Brickton of Ideas—What if there was some magic device that could somehow scan all your LEGO and tell you what you can make with it? It’s a childhood dream come tr...
- + Slicing and Dicing the Bits: CPU Design the Old Fashioned Way—Writing for Hackaday can be somewhat hazardous. Sure, we don’t often have to hide from angry spies or corporate thugs. But we do often write abo...
- + How Wireless Charging Works and Why It’s Terrible—Wireless charging is pretty convenient, as long as the transmitter and receiver speak the same protocol. Just put the device you want to charge on the...
- + The Hunt for MH370 Goes On With Barnacles As A Lead—On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished. The crash site was never found, nor was the plane. It remains one of the most perplexing avia...
- + Going Canadian: The Rise and Fall of Novell—During the 1980s and 1990s Novell was one of those names that you could not avoid if you came even somewhat close to computers. Starting with selling ...
- + AI Camera Only Takes Nudes—One of the cringier aspects of AI as we know it today has been the proliferation of deepfake technology to make nude photos of anyone you want. What i...
- + Restoring a Vintage German EV—When you think of EVs from the 90s, GM’s EV1 may come to mind, but [bleeptrack] found a more obscure CityEL three wheeler to restore. This Perso...
- + The MUSE Permanent Magnet Stellarator: Fusion Reactor With Off-The-Shelf Parts—When you think of a fusion reactor like a tokamak or stellarator, you are likely to think of expensive projects requiring expensive electromagnets mad...
- + Hackaday Links: April 21, 2024—Do humanoid robots dream of electric retirement? Who knows, but maybe we can ask Boston Dynamics’ Atlas HD, which was officially retired this we...
- + Keeping Alive The Future Of Cars, 1980s Style—Here at Hackaday we’re a varied bunch of writers, some of whom have careers away from this organ, and others whose work also appears on the page...
- + Manual Supports for 3D Printing—[MakerSpace] wanted to 3D print an RFID card holder. On one side is a slot for a card and on the other side has recesses for the RFID antenna. They &...
- + Radio Frequency Burns, Flying a Kite, and You—Most hams can tell you that it’s possible to get a nasty RF burn if you accidentally touch an antenna while it’s transmitting. However, yo...
- + From Z80 to eZ80: Porting 8-bit Sonic 2 to the TI-84+ CE—An unwritten rule is that if two systems runs even roughly the same CPU, you are obligated to port software between them, or at least give it a fair s...
- + An Open-Source Gaming Mouse—It’s a shame, that peripherals sold as of higher performance for gaming so often deliver little but aggressive styling. [Wareya] became frustrat...
- + Trolling IBM’s Quantum Processor Advantage With a Commodore 64—There’s been a lot of fuss about the ‘quantum advantage’ that would arise from the use of quantum processors and quantum systems in ...
- + AM Radio Broadcast Uses Phasor To Let Eight Towers Spray One Big Signal—If you’re in the commercial AM radio business, you want to send your signal as far and wide as possible. More listeners means you can make more ...
- + Solar Panel Keeps Cheap Digital Calipers Powered Up—There’s no doubt that cheap digital calipers are useful, especially when designing 3D-printed parts. Unfortunately, cheap digital calipers are a...
- + Relatively Universal ROM Programmer Makes Retro Tech Hacking Accessible—There’s treasures hidden in old technology, and you deserve to be able to revive it. Whether it’s old personal computer platforms, vending...
- + Let the Solder Scroll Take Care of Your Feed Needs—[Victor]’s nifty tool the Solder Scroll is a handheld device that lets one feed solder out simply by turning something a little like a scroll wh...
- + The Long and the Short of It—Last weekend was Hackaday Europe 2024, and it was great. Besides having some time to catch up with everyone, see some fun new badge hacks, and of cour...
- + Bad Experiences With a Cheap Wind Turbine—If you’ve got a property with some outdoor space and plenty of wind, you might consider throwing up a windmill to generate some electricity. Ind...
- + 3D Printer Streaming Solution Unlocks Webcam Features—While 3D printer hardware has come along way in the past decade and a half, the real development has been in the software. Open source slicers are con...
- + Building a Giant Boardgame Isn’t Easy—[Stevenson Streeper] is a maker, and was recently charged with a serious mission. He had to prototype, design, and build a board game. A software-cont...
- + Measuring An Unknown Velocity Factor—When is the speed of light not the speed of light? Of course, that’s a trick question. The speed of light may be constant, but just as sound tra...
- + End-Of-Life for Z80 CPU and Peripherals Announced—In a Product Change Notification (PCN) published on April 15, Zilog (now owned by Littelfuse) announced the End of Life for a range of Z80 products, s...
- + Roboticizing An Etch-a-Sketch—The Etch-a-Sketch was a popular toy, but a polarizing one. You were either one of those kids that had the knack, or one of the kids that didn’t....
- + Crystal Radio Kit from the 1970s—If you read the December 1970 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, you’d be treated to [Len Buckwalter]’s crystal radio build. He called out Mod...
- + Hackaday Podcast Episode 267: Metal Casting, Plasma Cutting, and a Spicy 555—What were some of the best posts on Hackaday last week? Elliot Williams and Al Williams decided there were too many to choose from, but they did take ...
- + Ultra-Tiny Wii Uses Custom Parts And Looks Amazing—The Nintendo Wii was never a large console. Indeed, it was smaller than both the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and most consoles of previous generations, t...
- + This Week in Security: Putty Keys, Libarchive, and Palo Alto—It may be time to rotate some keys. The venerable PuTTY was updated to 0.81 this week, and the major fix was a change to how ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 signa...
- + NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Transitions Into Stationary Testbed—On April 16th NASA announced the formal end to Ingenuity’s days as the first ever Martian helicopter, following its 72nd and final flight missio...
- + Build Your Own RGB Fill Light For Photography—Photography is all about light, and capturing it for posterity. As any experienced photographer will tell you, getting the right lighting is key to ge...
- + PC Watercooling Prototype is Pumpless—Watercooling is usually more efficient than air cooling for the same volume of equipment, and — important for many people — it is generall...
- + Computing Via (Virtual) Dominos—Back in 2012, [Matt Parker] and a team built a computer out of dominos for the Manchester Science Festival. [Andrew Taylor], part of the team that bui...
- + Remove Wall Plugs Fast With A Custom Tool—The best thing about buying your own home is that you can hang things on the walls. It’s a human right all too often denied to renters the world...
- + DIY Quad-Motor Go-Kart is a Thrilling Ride—[Peter Holderith] set out some time ago to build an electric go-kart. That by itself is not terribly unusual, but where his project diverts from the u...
- + Early CD Player Teardown—While CD players are nothing new today, they were the height of high-tech in the early 1980s. [w1ngsfly] shows us the inside of a Phase Linear 9500 pl...
- + LYFT: Standing Up for Better IKEA BEKANT Control—The IKEA BEKANT sit/stand desk is kind of a lifesaver — even if you don’t personally go between sit and stand much, the adjustability make...
- + MXM: Powerful, Misused, Hackable—Today, we’ll look into yet another standard in the embedded space: MXM. It stands for “Mobile PCI Express Module”, and is basically ...
- + Unraveling The Secrets of Apple’s Mysterious Fisheye Format—Apple has developed a proprietary — even mysterious — “fisheye” projection format used for their immersive videos, such as tho...
- + Hacked Oscilloscope Plays Breakout, Hints at More—You know things are getting real when the Dremel is one of the first tools you turn to after unboxing your new oscilloscope. But when your goal is to ...
- + Raspberry Pi Scanner Digitizes On the Cheap—It’s pretty important in 2024 to be able digitize documents quickly and easily without necessarily having to stop by the local library or buy an...
- + Source Code to the 1999 FPS Game Descent 3 Released—On April 16th of this year, [Kevin Bentley] released the source code to the Sci-Fi FPS game Descent 3. Originally released in 1999 for Windows, the ga...
- + FLOSS Weekly Episode 779: Errata Prevention Specialist—This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch sit down with Andy Stewart to talk about Andy’s Ham Radio Linux (AHRL)! It’s the Linux distro des...
- + This Go-Kart Rides on a Pallet—Many beginner woodworkers, looking to offset the introductory costs of starting a hobby, will source their wood from pallets. Generally they’re ...
- + Compiling and Running Turbo Pascal in the Browser—When a friend of [Lawrence Kesteloot] found a stack of 3.5″ floppy disks, they found that it contained Turbo Pascal code which the two of them h...
- + VCF East 2024 Was Bigger and Better Than Ever—I knew something had changed before I even paid for my ticket to this year’s Vintage Computer Festival East at the InfoAge Science and History M...
- + Custom Dog Door Prevents Culinary Atrocities—Riley, an 8 lb pug, has more beauty than brains, and a palate as unrefined as crude oil. While we hate criticizing others’ interests and tastes,...
- + Human-Interfacing Devices: HID over I2C—In the previous two HID articles, we talked about stealing HID descriptors, learned about a number of cool tools you can use for HID hacking on Linux,...
- + Getting Started with Radio Astronomy—There are many facets to being a radio hobbyist, but if you’ve ever had the urge to dabble in radio astronomy, check out “The Novice’...
- + A ROG Ally Battery Mod You Ought To Try—Today’s hack is an unexpected but appreciated contribution from members of the iFixit crew, published by [Shahram Mokhtari]. This is an ROG Ally...
- + Cyberpunk Guitar Strap Lights Up with Repurposed PCBs—Sometimes, whether we like it or not, ordering PCBs results in extra PCBs lying around, either because of board house minimums, mistakes on either end...
- + Still Up and Coming: Non-Planar FDM 3D Printing With 3 or 6 Axes—Most of the time FDM 3D printing involves laying down layers of thermoplastics, but the layer lines also form the biggest weakness with parts produced...
- + More Microwave Metal Casting—If you think you can’t do investment casting because you don’t have a safe place to melt metal, think again. Metal casting in the kitchen ...
- + Recycling Wires for Breadboarding—It is easy to take things for granted, but if you work with students, you realize that even something as simple as a breadboard needs explanation. [00...
- + The Next Evolution Of The Raspberry Pi Recovery Kit—At Hackaday, the projects we cover are generally a one-off sort of thing. Somebody makes something, they post it online, we share it with our audience...
- + Microsoft Killed My Favorite Keyboard, And I’m Mad About It—As a professional writer, I rack up thousands of words a day. Too many in fact, to the point where it hurts my brain. To ease this burden, I choose &...
- + Fail of the Week: Can an Ultrasonic Cleaner Remove Bubbles From Resin?—[Wendy] asked a very good question. Could putting liquid resin into an ultrasonic cleaner help degas it? Would it help remove bubbles, resulting in a ...
- + Linux Fu: Stupid Systemd Tricks—Last time, I gave a whirlwind introduction to a very small slice of systemd. If you aren’t comfortable with systemd services, timers, and mounts...
- + Why Pulse Current Charging Lithium-Ion Batteries Extends Their Useful Lifespan—For as much capacity lithium-ion batteries have, their useful lifespan is generally measured in the hundreds of cycles. This degradation is caused by ...
- + Retrotechtacular: The Other Kind of Fallout Show—Thanks to the newly released Amazon Prime series, not to mention nearly 30 years as a wildly successful gaming franchise, Fallout is very much in the ...
- + Alternate Threaded Inserts for 3D Prints—The usual way to put a durable threaded interface into a 3D print is to use a heat-set insert, but what about other options? [Thomas Sanladerer] evalu...
- + Building a Tape Echo In A Coke Can Tape Player That Doesn’t Really Work—Back in the 1990s, you could get a tape player shaped like a can of Coca Cola. [Simon the Magpie] scored one of these decks and decided to turn it &#...
- + Compaq Portable III is More Than Meets the Eye—The Compaq Portable III hails from the 386 era — in the days before the laptop form factor was what we know today. It’s got a bit of an od...
- + Plasma Cutter on the Cheap Reviewed—If you have a well-equipped shop, it isn’t unusual to have a welder. Stick welders have become a commodity and even some that use shield gas are...
- + 3D Printing a Cassette Is Good Retro Fun—The cassette is one of the coolest music formats ever, in that you could chuck them about with abandon and they’d usually still work. [Chris Bor...
- + Logic Analyzers: Decoding And Monitoring—Last time, we looked into using a logic analyzer to decode SPI signals of LCD displays, which can help us reuse LCD screens from proprietary systems, ...
- + Analyzing the Code From The Terminator’s HUD—The T1000, also known as the Terminator, was like some kind of non-giving up robot guy. The robot assassin viewed the world through a tinted view with...
- + Remembering Peter Higgs and the Gravity of His Contributions to Physics—There are probably very few people on this globe who at some point in time haven’t heard the term ‘Higgs Boson’ zip past, along wit...
- + How Do You Make A Repairable E-Reader—Mobile devices have become notorious for their unrepairability, with glued-together parts and impossible-to-reach connectors. So it’s refreshing...
- + Waveform Generator Teardown is Nearly Empty—We always enjoy [Kerry Wong’s] insightful teardowns, and recently, he opened up a UTG1042X arbitrary waveform generator. Getting inside was a bi...
- + A Buggy Entry in the Useless Robot Category—No one loves a useless robot more than we do here at Hackaday. But if anyone does it might be [ARC385] with her Bug Bite Bot. A true engineering marve...
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